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Greg Egan

PERMUTATION
CITY

Harper Prism
Copyright (c) 1994 by Greg Egan


ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Parts of this novel are adapted from a story called "Dust," which was first published in Isaac
Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, July 1992.


Thanks to Deborah Beale, Charon Wood, Peter Robinson, David Pringle, Lee Montgomerie, Gardner
Dozois and Sheila Williams.



Into a mute crypt, I
Can't pity our time
Turn amity poetic
Ciao, tiny trumpet!
Manic piety tutor
Tame purity tonic
Up, meiotic tyrant!
I taint my top cure
To it, my true panic
Put at my nice riot

To trace impunity
I tempt an outcry, I
Pin my taut erotic
Art to epic mutiny
Can't you permit it
To cite my apt ruin?
My true icon: tap it
Copy time, turn it; a
Rite to cut my pain
Atomic putty? Rien!

Found in the memory of a discarded notepad in
the Common Room of the Psychiatric Ward,
Blacktown Hospital, June 6, 2045.

1 (Note: numeration of pages has been maintained according to Harper Prism edition; page numbers
indicate the upper part of the page)